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Re: ldapsearch

To: Dieter Kluenter <dieter@dkluenter.de>
Subject: Re: ldapsearch
From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 10:45:32 +0200
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
In-reply-to: <m3y91bbcu7.fsf@marin.l4b.de>
References: <661F9268BBA8CB4EB92CC12B8C42F069151579@pluto.rovingplanet.com> <m3y91bbcu7.fsf@marin.l4b.de>

Dieter Kluenter writes:
>"Ron Wahler" <ron@rovingplanet.com> writes:
> 
>> Can you default the ldapsearch to start at the basedn  without knowing
>> What the basedn is?
> 
> Yes.
> put a BASE directive in a  ~/.ldaprc or ~/ldaprc

Or if he is wondering how to discover the top base DN a particular
server will let him search from if he does not know that:
Read the namingContexts attribute in the server's root DSE.  E.g.

ldapsearch -LLL -x -h ldaphost -s base -b "" "(objectClass=*)" namingContexts

-- 
Hallvard

References:
- ldapsearch
  - From: "Ron Wahler" <ron@rovingplanet.com>
- Re: ldapsearch
  - From: Dieter Kluenter <dieter@dkluenter.de>

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